Django browser for Redmine database
Do you know redmine ? This is, to my knowledge, the best project manager you could ever find out there. I like to describe it as ‘trac done well‘. It has only one, big, ugly, fat inconvenient for me :...
View ArticleActivities gallery
While developing my recently released activity mercurial extension (and here too), I did a lot of tests on some quite famous/big projects. I’ve found the results to be quite interesting and decided to...
View ArticleAnnouncing colibri 1.0 alpha1, a mailing list manager with a django based web...
It has been more than one year now that I’m running my own mailing list software here at freehackers, and I think it is now time to release a first preview of it. Let me introduce Colibri 1.0 alpha1...
View ArticleNew mercurial mirror for Django stable branch 1.2
I have tried for the last few years to use one of the mercurial mirrors on bitbucket.org to follow Django. Since far before Django 1.0 was released, I was following trunk, but I have switched to the...
View ArticleMercurial mirror for Django stable branch 1.3
Django recently released the 1.3 version, and as such a new ‘stable’ branch was created in subversion. As I did for the 1.2 branch, there’s now a mercurial mirror, following the 1.3 branch. It is...
View ArticleCelery init scripts for Gentoo
I’m using django-celery on a project. The only difficult part was that gentoo ebuilds would not provide init scripts. It might be that some ebuilds in some obscure overlay provides those, but this was...
View ArticleDjangoRedmineAdmin 1.0 released
I recently needed (again) to ‘browse’ a redmine database, and I used my DjangoRedmineAdmin application to do so. I took this opportunity to update the code and doing some more tests/fixes. As a result...
View ArticleMercurial Mirror For Django 1.4 branch
Another Django release, another branch, another mercurial mirror… Cloning this one will costs you ~35Mb on your hard disk, compared to 167Mb for the official django mirror. This is updated once a day...
View ArticleUnofficial mercurial mirror for Django that works
The documentation for Django mentions an “official” mirror for mercurial. Django got us used to a very high standard when it comes to quality. Unfortunately, this is exactly the contrary for this...
View ArticleNew Django mercurial mirrors aimed at production servers
When Django was still using subversion, I used to mirror stable branches (1.2 when I started, 1.4 recently). This worked well and I could clone those repositories on production servers, and then it was...
View ArticleMercurial Mirror For Django 1.5 branch
Django has just released the first alpha for the next big release, 1.5. As such they created the 1.5.x branch that will lead to the 1.5.0 release and then will become the stable branch. I do not intend...
View ArticleMercurial Mirror For Django 1.6 branch
Django has another branch, and we have another mirror. Today Django 1.6 beta 1 was released, and that seemed a good day to start the 1.6 mirror. So here it is, next to the other mirrors on my bitbucket...
View ArticleRelease of Colibri 1.0-beta2
Time flies, and I haven’t made any release of Colibri for a long time, despite it being used in production and bug being fixed as they are found. So here it is. No shiny new feature there, it’s mostly...
View ArticleMercurial Mirror For Django 1.7 Branch
Today the Django project released the first alpha for Django 1.7. As such, the branch for 1.7 has been created in the git repository, and we can start mirroring it. Of course, this is still an alpha...
View ArticleMercurial Mirror For Django 1.8 branch
Another year, another alpha release for Django and … another “production” mirror for me and anybody else interested. Django has just released the first alpha for Django-1.8. As usual, I create the...
View ArticleMercurial Mirror For Django 1.9 branch
I forgot to mention it, but I’ve created the 1.9 “production” mirror at the usual location: As a reminder, those mirrors have two purposes: be a lightweight read-only repository to clone from for...
View ArticleMercurial Mirror For Django 1.10 branch
Following the recent 1.10-beta1 release, here is our usual “production” mirror, aimed at: being a lightweight read-only repository to clone from for production servers hide the ugly git stuff behind a...
View ArticleMercurial Mirror For Django 1.11 Branch
Here is our usual “production” mirror, aimed at: being a lightweight read-only repository to clone from for production servers hide the ugly git stuff behind a great mercurial interface The clone is at...
View ArticleMercurial Mirror For Django 2.0 Branch
The first Beta was released today, so it seems a good day to start the mirror for the 2.0 branch of Django. For the record, main purposes of this mirror are: being a lightweight read-only repository to...
View ArticleMercurial Mirror For Django 2.1 Branch
I’m slightly late on this one, but here it is. For the record, main purposes of this mirror are: being a lightweight read-only repository to clone from for production servers hide the ugly git stuff...
View ArticleDjango mercurial mirrors updates
Time to clean up my mercurial mirrors as Django 3.0 has just had its first alpha released. Keeping an eye on the supported versions, I did the following changes: Added mirror for 3.0 branch :...
View ArticleMirrors migrated out of bitbucket
As you are probably aware, bitbucket is dead. At least the original bitbucket as we knew it, the leader in mercurial hosting. They no longer host mercurial repositories, so I had to move my kernel and...
View ArticleMercurial mirror for Django 3.2 branch
As usual when Django releases a new Alpha version, I’ve settled a new mirror. The URL (both web and clone) is https://freehackers.org/mirrors/django-3.2-production As stated before, I no longer use...
View ArticleMercurial Mirror For Django 4.0 Branch
The first beta for Django 4.0 was just announced, and it’s time for another ‘production’ mercurial mirror.
View ArticleMercurial Mirror For Django 4.1 Branch
The usual ‘production’ mirror for the recently announced Django 4.1.
View ArticleMercurial Mirror For Django 4.2 Branch
Slightly late, but here’s the 4.2 mirror. As usual, read-only, and aimed at production (aka “using django on servers “), not development (aka “commit”).
View ArticleMercurial Mirror For Django 5.0 Branch
The mirror is up and running since the first beta or so, but I forgot to mention it on the blog. Now that 5.0 is officially released, it seems a perfect timing to fix that. For the record, those...
View ArticleMercurial Mirror For Django 5.1 Branch
Upstream just released the first beta. Now is the time to start the new mirror. For the record, those mirrors are read-only, and aimed at production (aka “I want an easy way to update Django on servers...
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